There is confusion in the Oshodi area of Lagos as some soldiers go on the rampage, vandalising vehicles.
Videos posted on social media by some residents revealed the moments where many vehicles, especially commercial buses were being destroyed, while some persons were assaulted by the aggrieved security operatives.
Some residents heading to work were trapped in the ensuing violence while students have fled back home.
Traders cleaning up their stores on the day of the weekly sanitation also fled just as some transporters abandoned their vehicles.
Although the cause of the crisis is yet to be ascertained, some claimed that a military officer was killed the previous day in the area.
The rampaging soldiers were also said to be targeting hoodlums.
The situation has compounded the traffic woe in the cosmopolitan city as there is currently no movement in and out the part of Oshodi where the rampaging soldiers are.
Oshodi links other major parts of Lagos and a major bus terminal is in that part of the state.
Muyiwa Adejobi, Police Public Relations Officer in the state, was not available for comments as of the time of filing this report as he neither responded to calls nor replied the text message sent.